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More than 200 Google engineers will stage a "women's walkout" on Thursday to protect against the company's handing of a handsome payout to Android chief Andy Rubin and the protection of several other big names who had allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct.

Google paid Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android mobile operating system, US$90 million when he left the company in 2014 over a sexual misconduct allegation, with a woman at the company having accused him of forcing her to perform oral sex.

Given the number of Android phones on the market, it might seem like overkill to have yet another device released. Yet that is precisely what Android creator Andy Rubin has done, releasing a smartphone branded Essential-PH1.

An email sent by Andy Rubin, the head of the team that was tasked with developing the Android mobile operating system, appears to indicate that Google was aware that it could not use APIs from the Java programming language as it wished.

Google tried and failed to strike a deal with Sun for the development of a mobile operating system, the search giant's former chief executive Eric Schmidt told a court yesterday.